The Coronavirus pandemic is dangerous, real, and spreading. In addition to health concerns, restrictions put into place are affecting cultural institutions, museums, education, religious observance, business operations, entertainment and many (in some countries most) aspects of normal every-day life. We … continue reading →
Recently, the Bagnówka Cemetery Restoration Project (BCRP) acquired World War II Luftwaffe Aerial Images of the Bagnówka Jewish Cemetery in Białystok, Poland from the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). These images are part of more than 1.25 million … continue reading →
Today, March 8, is marked around the world as International Women’s Day. In past years, we have marked the day with photo essays showing how women have been represented in Jewish art. (Click HERE for 2019 and HERE for 2018.) … continue reading →
Poland’s Rabbinical Commission on Cemetery Affairs decried what it called the “conscious and merciless destruction of the Jewish cemetery” in the southern town of Jasło, by the construction of a road through the cemetery territory. It said at least eight … continue reading →
Following the closure of a year-long standoff over the directorship of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, the museum’s new director, Zygmunt Stępiński, begins a three-year term in the post today, March 1. Stępiński, who became Deputy … continue reading →
